Michelle Pedigo

As an executive with over twenty years’ experience, Michelle Pedigo is Vice President for the South Region for MassMutual Financial Advisors, a role she assumed in July 2016 as part of MassMutual’s acquisition of MetLife’s Premier Client Group. Over the past 10 years, Pedigo has provided strategic sales leadership, focused on recruiting and retention of professional advisors and consulting with general agents on business development and a strong local value proposition. Michelle has exceled in implementing initiatives that yielded growth and as well as breakthrough results, including project management of a $12B initiative and $20M cost reductions that increased profitability.

During her early tenure at MetLife, Pedigo served as National Director, Distribution Partnerships, for MetLife Resources and led a wholesaling team that supported MetLife, New England Financial, Tower Square Securities and Walnut Street Securities distribution channels with sales of annuities for the 403(b) and 457 markets. Annuity deposits within these channels were approximately $260 million annually.

When MetLife Resources acquired CitiStreet Associates in 2005, making it the fifth largest company serving the 403(b) market and second largest in the K-12 marketplace, Pedigo was a critical part of the team that seamlessly integrated the two entities.

Before joining MetLife in 2002, Pedigo was named the 2001 MetLife/National Association of Secondary School Principals’ National Middle School Principal of the Year, an honor she earned while serving as Principal of Barren County Middle School in Kentucky. Under her leadership, Barren County Middle School became one of four nationally recognized “Schools to Watch.”

In addition to earning principal, supervisory and teaching certifications, she has a master’s degree in education from Western Kentucky University and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, graduating Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown College. She is a published author who has served with national educational associations and as a panelist for the U.S. Department of Education.

Michelle is an active member of the Women in Financial Services (WIFS), the Association of Advanced Life Underwriters (AALU) and GAMA. She is also active in her community, having served on the Barren County Board of Education, now serving on the local board of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, as well as volunteering with local schools and her church. Pedigo and her husband, Ivan, are proud parents of daughters Sara-Cate, Deanie, Mallory and Bailey.

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